Greenback Dollar
E470069
"Greenback Dollar" is a 1963 American folk song best known through its hit recording by The Kingston Trio, reflecting themes of money, freedom, and nonconformity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greenback Dollar canonical | 4 |
| Greenback Dollar (song) | 1 |
| Greenback Dollar – The Kingston Trio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4790985 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greenback Dollar Context triple: [The Kingston Trio, notableSingle, Greenback Dollar]
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A.
Confederate States dollar
The Confederate States dollar was the paper money issued by the secessionist Southern government during the American Civil War, now chiefly remembered as a symbol of the Confederacy and a collectible historical currency.
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B.
United States Note
A United States Note was a form of U.S. government-issued paper currency, distinct from Federal Reserve Notes, that circulated as legal tender from the 19th century until its phase-out in the late 20th century.
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C.
Trade dollar
The Trade dollar was a 19th-century United States silver coin specifically created for use in trade with Asia, notable for its higher silver content than the standard silver dollar.
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D.
Susan B. Anthony dollar
The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a small-sized U.S. one-dollar coin, minted from 1979 to 1981 and again in 1999, notable for featuring suffragist Susan B. Anthony and for its unpopular similarity in size and color to the quarter.
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E.
Silver Certificate
A Silver Certificate was a form of U.S. paper currency once redeemable for a corresponding amount of silver, issued primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Greenback Dollar Target entity description: "Greenback Dollar" is a 1963 American folk song best known through its hit recording by The Kingston Trio, reflecting themes of money, freedom, and nonconformity.
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A.
Confederate States dollar
The Confederate States dollar was the paper money issued by the secessionist Southern government during the American Civil War, now chiefly remembered as a symbol of the Confederacy and a collectible historical currency.
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B.
United States Note
A United States Note was a form of U.S. government-issued paper currency, distinct from Federal Reserve Notes, that circulated as legal tender from the 19th century until its phase-out in the late 20th century.
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C.
Trade dollar
The Trade dollar was a 19th-century United States silver coin specifically created for use in trade with Asia, notable for its higher silver content than the standard silver dollar.
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D.
Susan B. Anthony dollar
The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a small-sized U.S. one-dollar coin, minted from 1979 to 1981 and again in 1999, notable for featuring suffragist Susan B. Anthony and for its unpopular similarity in size and color to the quarter.
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E.
Silver Certificate
A Silver Certificate was a form of U.S. paper currency once redeemable for a corresponding amount of silver, issued primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | folk revival movement ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
American folk
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Greenback Dollar (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Greenback Dollar
|
| hasCulturalContext | 1960s American folk revival ⓘ |
| hasLyricalFocus |
critique of conventional values
ⓘ
personal independence ⓘ rejection of materialism ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion | The Kingston Trio recording ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Greenback Dollar ⓘ |
| isHitRecordingFor | The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio recording ⓘ |
| notableFor | hit recording by The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| partOf | American folk music repertoire ⓘ |
| performer | The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| recordedBy | The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| theme |
freedom
ⓘ
money ⓘ nonconformity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Greenback Dollar Description of subject: "Greenback Dollar" is a 1963 American folk song best known through its hit recording by The Kingston Trio, reflecting themes of money, freedom, and nonconformity.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Greenback Dollar
linked to: Greenback Dollar